Eva Green - WHAT'S SEXY?

Eva loves being mysterious

         Showing skin is sexy, but former Bond girl Eva Greenis in no mood to 'flash her flesh'. Claiming that she wants to maintain a bit of mystery about herself, the actress likes to keep most of her body covered when she goes out. "I hate showing my stomach or too much flesh. It kills the mystery and I don't think it's very sexy. I look out for high collars and Edwardian details. I'm very self-conscious, though, and never satisfied. But, I'm sure lots of women feel the same," she said. That's not all. Whenever Eva has to walk down a red carpet, she likes to have a dramatic look, even though it play take her a while to control her nerves.

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Kangana Ranaut - RARING TO GO

Kangana: Back

from the brink

        Kangana Ranaut, who was literally asmed to go fly Kites because of her miniscule role in her mentor Anurag Basu's film, now has reason to smile. She is back in a new avatar as a bold Bollywood diva called Rehana in Ekta Kapoor's Once Upon a Time in Mumbai. Says director Milan Luthria, "Kangana has a great body which does not look vulgar and her face is chameleon-like. She can change into a different look each day." "Kangana, who worked hard on her lolk in the film, studied the fads and trends rampant in the 70s, not just in Bollywood but even in the West. Adds a production source, "Kangana's costumes were designed by Manoshi Nath and Rushi Sharma/. She even went on to sketch out preferred hairdo accessories and the works for her look in the film."

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Shreyas Talpade - FLYING HIGH

Left hanging!

       Shreyas Talpade was, apparently, excited and nervous when director Aditya Dutt told him that hd needs to take montage shots of the Dubai skyline from up in the air, 10,000 feet above sea level with Shreyas paragliding. 

      What's more, Aditya said that they didn't have the budget for a body double. Now, Shreyas can take on any actor when it comes to histrionics because the guy is talented. However, he was a nervous wreck when he found himself strapped with a camera and belts. But he got around to giving a near perfect shot and after the experience the actor even grinned and said that Dubai looked even more beautiful from up in the sky.

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Katrina Kaif - SMART MOVES

Katrina plays politics

            Katrina Kaif is a smart cookie. Of course, the world knows that, but what's the harm in reiterating it? Through the making of her latest film, where she teamed up with a bunch of talented men, she kept telling each of them that they are the best. She told Ajay Devgn she'd like tips from him in acting, she personally believes Ranbir Kapoor is very talented and very clever with his choice of movies, and after she saw the political drama in a preview, she fell at Manoj Bajpayee's feet in full view of a live crowd. "You are my guru," said  pretty Kat, With her smart move and ample praise. Kat has won herself three fans. Yes, all the men she praised are praising her in turn. Good going, Kat.

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A Still From Utthama Puthiran

HOPING 

FOR A

HAT-TRICK!

        Jawahar K Mithran's bond with Dhanush seems to be special. ' The director, who delivered two hits back-to-back with Dhanush playing the lead in both of them, is now busy directing his third film. And needless to say, Dhanush is playing the lead in this film too.

       Titled Utthama Puthiran, the movie is a remake of the Telugu film Ready, which has also been remade in Kannada. Genelia, who played the female lead in Ready, plays the same part in the remake too. Sources close to the film's unit say that the team is leaving no stone unturned to ensure the film's success.

       Recently, three songs for the film were shot in Switzerland and Italy. In fact, the services of professional dancers from Switzerland have been used to can a song for this film.

       Seems like the duo is eager to score a hat-trick at the box office!

      MANIGANDAN K R

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Shilpa Shetty - SUPER HOT

Shilpa gives health tips

        Shilpa shetty, who married well and has a bank balance that is making most others in Bollywood go red, pink and green, still has no films to talk about.

       So, how does she keep the Shilpa myth alive? She is running a health contest on a micro blogging site. If there is one thing Shipla has, it is a fantafabulous body.

       And those following her health tips may surely benefit because the actress, despite 15 years in showbiz, still looks like a all line bucks.

 

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Ajay Devgn - GYM GANG

Gymming partnership

          Tusshar Kapoor has discovered a friendly neighbourhood gym companion in Ajay Devgn. Mr Richie Rich Tusshar has his own enviable gym, but he likes good company and great motivation wile exercising. So, these days, at the break of dawn.

        Tusshar pillion rides with his trainer to Ajay's sprawling bungalow that is five minutes away from his own mansion. And then, the Golmaal boys exercise together Incidentally, these two actors are also constantly messaging each other about who they met, what they did and yes, sometimes, even what they ate. On outdoor shoots, the boys have Kareena Kapoor for company, She is part of the boys' gang too.

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HEALTH ISSUE: SHORT CUTS

SHORT CUTS


NRI develops single-dose
raiation therapy for cancer


     An Indian oncologist is among three experts in the UK who have achieved a breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer after a ten-year trial that demonstrates that a single dose of radiation during surgery is just as effective as a prolonged course of rediotherapy. Goa-origin Jayant Vaidya, who works at the University College, Royal Free and Whittington Hospitals, designed and led the trial called interoperative radiotherapy (TARGET) involving 2,000 women along with oncologists Jeffrey Tobias and Mike Baum. The new approach means selected patients surgery to remove breast cancer. A probe is inserted into the breast so that it can target the exact site of the cancer.


Test-tube twins born 4 years apart:

       Meet IVF twins Bailey and Megan Orrells who were born a record-breaking four years apart. And they were both born to the same surrogate mother, reports the News of the world. The time-lapse sisters came from the last batch of eggs mum jayne - who has had a hysterectomy - was able to produce. All jayne's eggs were fertilized by dad Simon through IVF, then frozen, Bailey was born in 2006. Jayne's remaining three embryos were left in the freezer - until the end of their legal shelf life in 2009 when the couple was faced with a final heartbreak choice of using them or losing them.
 

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Health Issue: Bubbles hold the Secret

Bubbles hold the secret

to tastier ice-creams

Sydney:  Scientists seem to have unravelled a secret - how bubbles bounce apart and fuse together. It could open the way to superior and better tasting ice cream and champagne and also increase efficiency in the mining industry.

     A team of chemical engineers, chemists and mathematicians led by Raymond Dagastine, professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering/ University of Melbourne (UM) are measuring the force between bubbles during a collision.

       "By understanding how bobbles bounce off each other and mould together, we will be able to improve things like the stability of ice-cream and the stability of bubbles in champagne," says Dagastine.

       "The findings could also be used to improve water treatment, and increase efficiency in mining industry."

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HEalth Issue: Why boozers enjoy a drag

Why boozers enjoy 

a drag with drinks

London: People who drink are often those who smoke because the centre in the brain that derives pleasure from both these actions is the same, claim researchers.

        Traute Flatscher-Bader at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Australia, ad colleagues did a post -mortem analysis of gene expression in the brains of smokers. alcoholics and those who had done both during their lives/

       "They observed that a group of genes in the nucleus accumbens-an area involved in creating pleasurable feelings - were expressed most strongly in their group of alcoholic smokers.

          According to Flatscher Bader, these genes play a role in rewiring the neurons in the nucleus accumbens. That means people who both smoke and drink might get a greater reward, making it harder for them to quit," reports New Scientist. The study has been published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

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Health Issue: Secret of Beer

Secret of beer goggles uncovered

London: It's official. Beer goggles really do exist. Scientists have finally proven that strangers indeed look sexier to people when they booze.

       The phenomenon, where less attractive people suddenly become more appealing when the onlooker has consumed copious amounts of alcohol, is well known in pubs and clubs. Until now, though, no one really knew why.

        

        Now, a new study has found that drunk students were up to 10% more likely to fall for less attractive people than those who were sober. It showed the more they drank, the less likely they were to recognise finer details on people's faces.

        A team of psyehologists found 64 students of varying levels of drunkenness in bars at Roehampton University, London/ They were asked to judge 20 photos of men and women aged 18 to 25. One face in each pair was digitally enhanced to make it more symmetrical - and therefore more attractive.

        Thirty six more sober students had a 67% success rate in choosing the symmetrical face. But 28 intoxicated students (who had drunk ten or more units) chose the more symmetrical face in just 58% of cases.

        "Drunk students were less good at noticing symmetrical faces and cared less about the defects". said Lewis Halsey, who led the study.

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News: SEA CHANGE?

Warming makes islands grow,

not shrink, says study

   An artist's rendition, based on satellite images, of an island in Tuvalu in the South Pacific. The dotted line and the solid line indicate the coast lines in 1984 and 2004 respectively.

Wellington: New research has cast doubt on warnings that rising sea levels caused by climate change are slowly inundating low-lying Pacific islands.

         

          Scientists have studied 27 lowp0lying Pacific islands, comparing aerial photos from 60 years ago with modern satellite images, according to an article published in the New Scientist.

          Paul Kench of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Arthur Webb at the South Pacific Applied Geo science Commission in Fiji found only four of the 27 islands declined in size despite an average rise in sea level of 12cm during the 60-year period.

        Half of the rest had remained the same size and the other half had increased in size. Kench said this shows that islands respond in different ways to climate change and rising seas. "One thing our results tell us there is no one model fits all kind of scenario," Kench said.

        It was important to have a sensible debate over the impact of climate change, "rather than just saying the sea level's going up and the islands must all disappear"

       The study says some islands are growing because waves, currents and winds are pushing coral debris from the surrounding reefs onto the shore. Although this study only involved studying the land area,  Kench said his previous research had shown cyclones and storms-which are predicted to become more frequent with climate change-also often played and important role in increasing the height of islands. "I've been in Tuvalu and know when cyclones hit Tuvalu, the waves go right across the island and in doing so, they are ripping up coral from the reef and beach and depositing them on the island surface.

       "So there's a natural mechanism of how these islands can rise vertically and in many cases can deep pace with sea level rise projected over the next century", Kench said.

        The study found that seven islands in one of Tuvalu's nine atolls have grown in area by more than three percent on average since the 1950s. With one island expanding nearly 30%.  

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News: Scientist Found Vital Clues Living on Titan...

Aliens exist on Saturn;s moon?

Titan's Chemical Composition Offers Hints Of Life: Nasa Researchers

Canada Spring shows

life possible in Mars

        Researchers have discovered that methanogenic bacteria that produce methane at a spring in Canada could be similar to earlier or present springs on Mars -- suggesting the possibility of life sustenance, "If you have a situation where you have very cold salty water, it could support a microbial community, even in that extreme harsh environment," Lyle Whyte, a McGill University microbiologist, said.

London: Scientists at US space agency Nasa have found vital clues to suggest that primitive aliens could be living on Titan, one of Saturn's biggest moons.

        On the basis of chemical composition found on Titan's surface, the experts believe that life forms have been breathing in the planet's atmosphere and also feeding on its surface's fuel. The research based on the analysis of data sent from Cassini probe has been detailed in two separate studies.

        The first paper, in the journal Icarus, shows that hydrogen gas flowing throughout the planet's atmosphere disappeared at the surface. This suggested that alien forms could breathe.

        The second paper, in the Journal of Geophysical Research, concluded that there was lack of chemical on the surface as it had been possibly consumed by the living aliens, the Telegraph reported.

        "We suggested hydrogen consumption because it's the obvious gas for life to consume on Titan, similar to the way we consume oxygen on Earth." said Chris Mckay, and astrobiologist working at Nasa. "If these signs do turn out to be a sign of life. It would be doubly exciting because it would represent a second form of life independent from water based life on Earth."

        Professor John Zarnecki, of the Open University, said; "We believe the chemistry is there for life to form. It just needs heat and warmth to kick-start the process. "In four billion years' time, when the Sun swells into a red giant, it could be paradise on Titan."

 

      

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Asia Cup Cricket

Well Sachin miss Asia Cup?

Injury Could force Master-Blaster To Skip The Four-Nation Meet; May Be Back For Tests

New Delhi:  Even before the selectors sat down on Monday to pick the Indian squad for the Asia Cup Sri Lanka, a shadow has been cast over the team's fortunes with the news that Sachin Tendulkar is likely to sit out of the One day tournament 'due to injury'. While sources in the nature of his injury, sources said that the master batsman may be available for the Test series against Sri Lanka which will follow the Asia Cup.

          Another theory doing the rounds was that Tendulkar wanted to rest a little while more before returning to the field but even this could not be ascertained.

          Interestingly, till late Sunday evening, the national selectors had no idea about Tendulkar's 'injury' and hence were not in a position to comment on it. "we've not been told anything about Tendulkar. As far as we are concerned, he is fit and ready to play," a selector told TOI.

       If Tendulkar is not there in the squad, then it would be a huge blow to the team which is already looking down the barrel after disastrous showings in the T20 World Cup and the Zimbabwe tri-series.

       Tendulkar, who has been in pristine form in the last year or so, will greatly bolster the team with his presence. As it is, India have looked especially shaky at the top of the batting order in recent times and Tendulkar as opener is the perfect panacea for the ills.

       However, when the selectors meet here in the Capital on Monday afternoon to shortlist the team, they may have to look for a credible alternative which is already in short supply.

 Shewag ready for the show: One good news for the selectors was that Virender Sehwag is fit. The other batsmen expected to make the cut are Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. However, there is pressure on Yuvraj Singh who has been dogged by injury and poor form as well as Yusuf Pathan. Ravindra Jadeja is likely to retain the all rounder's slot. The main challenge for the selectors will be to pick a potent pace attack. {raveen Kumar has recovered from a side strain

       While Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra are expected to be back to lead the pace department, Praveen Kumar, who has recovered from a side strain, is also in contention along with Ishant Sharma and Ashok Dinda. Among spinners, while Harbhajan Singh is the first choice, Pragyan Ojha, Piyush Chawla and Amit Mishra are also in contention with Ojha's claim looking to be the strongest one.

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